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Use
the handy links below to zoom to your gold jewelry needs!
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How
to buy gold jewelry:
Look
for the karat mark, which will tell you that the piece is real gold and
the percentage of pure gold it contains.
Pure
gold, or 24K, has a deeply warm and rich color, but it is extremely soft
and easily damaged. For this reason, pieces made from pure gold take on
unique stamps of individuality with wear. Oftentimes, gold is alloyed with
other metals, such as copper, silver, nickel and zinc to give it strength
and durability. Different proportions of these alloys also give gold its
rose, green, or white coloration.
18K
gold is 75% gold; 14K is 58.5%; and 10K is 41.6%. The higher the karatage,
the richer the color will be and the more costly.
In
the U.S. jewelry must be at least 10K to be legally sold as real gold.
(In Canada and Mexico, the minimum legal standard of karatage is 9K and
8K respectively.) Imported gold jewelry may be stamped with different numbers.
For example, the European marking for 14 karat gold jewelry is 585; for
18K it is 750.
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